Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
How would the MoD have any say on ex-service personnel working wherever they chose (or perhaps could in less choosy times) ?
I can appreciate freshly-ex personnel being a possible risk ifthey had been illegally detained, but most wouldn't have had up to date intel to give up surely ?
I left the RAF in 1972 and joined IAS Cargo Airlines as a Britannia 312 captain. In January 1973 I flew a Britannia, using a LOT callsign from Cairo to Warsaw with 17.5 tons of tomatoes on board. Only the F/O was non RAF. After a very difficult arrival due to the heavy snowfall we had a lively night in Warsaw airport hotel. I remember we were not allowed to divert to Berlin If the GCA had been unsuccessful. The return to Gatwick was North and then West via Denmark.